DA calls for immediate recall of Ambassador Bruce Koloane
14 July 2019
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has written to the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), Naledi Pandor, to request the immediate recall of Ambassador Bruce Koloane from his posting to the Netherlands, following his incriminating testimony at the Zondo Commission this past week.
In his testimony, Ambassador Koloane admitted under oath that, while he was still the Chief of State Protocol, he abused the power of his office to benefit the Gupta family by enabling them to land their private jet at the Waterkloof Airforce base in 2013.
Ambassador Koloane’s actions were a direct breach of our national security and a violation of the National Key Point Act as he oversaw the landing of a civilian plane at a National Key Point. The National Key Point Act implicates Ambassador Koloane for serious wrongdoing, as in Section 25, 10 (1) it clearly states that:
“Any person who, at, on, in connection with or in respect of any National Key Point performs any act which, if such act would have constituted an offence in terms of the Official Secrets Act, 1956 (Act No. 16 of 1956), if performed or executed at, on, in common with or respect of any prohibited place, as defined in section 1 of that Act, should be guilty of an offence and liable to penalties prescribed for that act in that Act”